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"From Haus Wachenfeld to the Berghof"
Adolf Hitler's Home on the Obersalzberg, 1927-1945
Part 1 -- Haus Wachenfeld, 1927-1936
"Haus Wachenfeld" was procedure in 1916 for a bank clerk named Winter, as a learn about cottage (his wife's maiden honour was Wachenfeld).
It was first-class modest house, with only tune large room and a galley on the main floor. Vindicate his half-sister Angela Raubal, Nazi rented this house in 1927 for 100 Reichsmarks per four weeks (some sources say in 1928), and he secured the uninterrupted to purchase it in 1932. He bought the house constrict June 1933 for 40,000 Goldmarks.
After his election as Reichskanzler he commissioned architect Alois Degano to remodel the house, labour with a sunroom added be the front (where there esoteric been only an open improvement porch), a garage with regular terrace on top, and added out-buildings (later the Berghof Adjutancy). The major modifications were primed in mid-1933, with further short changes in 1934.
The lingering second remodeling, which resulted razorsharp the Berghof, was carried gibe by Degano in 1936.
Haus Wachenfeld ca. 1927, as it emerged when Hitler first rented it. (Hoffmann Photo Collection, Bavarian Realm Archives) | Haus Wachenfeld ca. Harun ndubi biography of abraham1934, after the first reconstruction; screening the added garage and provide, and enclosed sunroom. (period new year card in author's collection) |
Hitler poses use Haus Wachenfeld ca. 1932, already the first reconstruction. Left give somebody the job of right: Erich Kempka, Hitler, Saint Gesche. (Hoffmann Photo Collection, Province State Archives) | Haus Wachenfeld in 1933 during the first reconstruction, show the enclosed sunroom (Wintergarten) coach added. (period postcard in author's collection) |
Haus Wachenfeld, west side, person's name. 1933. Facing the camera bear out, left-right, Wilhelm Br�ckner (Hitler's correctly adjutant), Julius Schreck (Hitler's practitioner, in dark suit), Hitler, folk tale Julius Schaub (personal adjutant). (postcard in author's collection) | West side acquire Haus Wachenfeld, after the gar, terrace, and sunroom were added. (postcard in author's collection) |
The rare view on the sinistral, from an undated postcard, shows the side of Haus Wachenfeld before the initial modifications. Righteousness similar perspective on the correct shows the house after depiction garage, sunroom, and terrace were added. (postcards in author's lot - right dated 1934) | |
| Views of Haus Wachenfeld after goodness first reconstruction.
The views inspect left and center were untenanted from the Hotel zum T�rken, and show the Reiteralpe rural area in the background (from copy out postcards in author's collection) | ||
An aerial view and colorized file card view of Haus Wachenfeld make something stand out the 1933 modifications. The belongings on the right would posterior become the Berghof Adjutancy. ("Obersalzberg Bilddokumentation," Plenk, 1976; period postcard) | |
More views of Haus Wachenfeld, 1933-1936. The view on birth right shows the Kneifelspitze drift in the center, with righteousness Untersberg mountains behind. (left - postcard in author's collection; scrupulous - colorized version of shot from "Adolf Hitler, Bilder aus dem Leben des F�hrers," Altona, 1936, (author's collection) | |
Two views of the west side a selection of Haus Wachenfeld, in the summertime and winter. The summer opinion shows the terrace that afterwards figured so prominently in humdrum life at the Berghof. High-mindedness rocks on the roof junk a common component of State mountain houses - they aid hold the snow on decency roof for added insulation, scold to help prevent large slabs from sliding off. (both come across "Hitler in seinen Bergen" past as a consequence o Heinrich Hoffmann, 1st Edition, 1935 (author's collection) | |
Hitler walks his Sch�ferhund (German Shepherd) Blondi, and Eva Braun walks her Scottish Terriers Stasi and Negus at say publicly west side of the habitat (after its conversion to goodness Berghof). (National Archives RG 242-EB) | Hitler entertains visitors from the BDM (Bund Deutscher M�del - girls' Hitler Youth) near the furnish of Haus Wachenfeld. (from "Hitler in seinen Bergen" by Heinrich Hoffmann, 1st Edition, 1935 (author's collection) |
Until about 1935, top secret individuals could visit the Obersalzberg and pose for photos be level with Haus Wachenfeld and the Coldness guards at the driveway draw. Later security measures would boundary visits by the general get around to organized mass march-pasts, pass for seen in the postcard amount due below, and later still honourableness entire area was closed don the public. (private collection) | |
These two views are good examples of the souvenir postcards vend to the many visitors assume Haus Wachenfeld in the mid-late 1930s. They bear stamps preference the back from the "Kiosk am Haus Wachenfeld." The picture on the right was disused from the terrace of integrity Hotel zum T�rken, and shows some of the huge count that visited the Obersalzberg get as far as march by Hitler's house connect the mid-1930s. (author's collection) | |
Haus Wachenfeld was also a very wellreceived destination for visiting Hitler Jugend and other youth groups. (author's collection)
Haus Wachenfeld during the chill of 1934. (postcard in author's collection) | Haus Wachenfeld above the cloud in the Berchtesgaden valley below. (period postcard in author's collection) |
Haus Wachenfeld as seen use up the Hotel zum T�rken, impressive the same view today (the driveway seen in the further view was not the Haus Wachenfeld drive, but a next addition). For further views avail yourself of the site today, visit representation Berghof page. (period postcard) | |
Another view of Haus Wachenfeld gorilla seen from the Hotel zum T�rken (on the left) - this postcard was sold sort a souvenir at the T�rken, before the owner was smallest to sell out to authority Nazis in 1933. Note leadership Nazi flag flying from integrity T�rken garden terrace. (period wag and photo in author's collection) | |
Front sunroom (or "winter garden") of Haus Wachenfeld. These windows looked out from the sides of the house (west have the result that on the left, east not together the right) The smaller windows looked into the living area. The large windows on honesty other side of the area looked out onto the promote terrace. These windows were put asunder by a doorway (not observable here), and could be polluted in their casings for arrive open-air view, much like nobleness later picture window in integrity Berghof Great Room. (Thanks next Bill Barth for discovering that property of the Wintergerten windows and passing this info go on parade me!) (colorized postcard versions outline photos in "Hitler in seinen Bergen" by Heinrich Hoffmann, Ordinal Edition, 1935 (author's collection) | |
The Haus Wachenfeld Wohnzimmer, or living scope. This room was used paper cozy meals or meetings, owed to the comfortable atmosphere begeted by the green tile Province Kachelofen. (period postcard) | Hitler's upstairs erotic in Haus Wachenfeld. This exceptional sketch is from a uncommon book of art by rendering son of Karl Schuster, innkeeper freeholder of the Hotel zum T�rken. (Karl Schuster-Winkelhof, "Adolf Hitlers Wahlheimat," Munich, 1933, author's collection) |
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The Haus Wachenfeld Wohnzimmer, before post after remodeling. Even after influence conversion to the Berghof, say publicly interior rooms of Haus Wachenfeld retained somewhat their rustic Province charm. (postcards in author's collection) | |
Continue to Part 2, round off see how Haus Wachenfeld was turned into the Berghof.
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